OT: Tech Jobs are everywhere

[paramount]

I am an IT industry vet, and I will tell you right now there are way more applicants than there are jobs.

Those phone calls from headhunters/recruiters – rest assured 99% probabilty they really don’t have a job and they will just waste your time.

I can tell from some comments above that many on this forum are newbies to IT.

Also, if you are over 40 – it’s even harder to get a decent job in IT.

IT is brutally competitive in basically all aspects and specialty fields (with the possible exception of defense companies).

If I were just starting out in my career, I would never go into IT. Especially now with offshoring and H1B’s.

[Casca]

Seconded, Paramount. Additionally, it is the most thankless of jobs. You’ll be expected to be available 24/7, and no matter what stupid users, DBA’s, and assorted nincompoops do to mess up the systems, it’s all supposed to work all the time, right?

[Casca]

Seconded, Paramount. Additionally, it is the most thankless of jobs. You’ll be expected to be available 24/7, and no matter what stupid users, DBA’s, and assorted nincompoops do to mess up the systems, it’s all supposed to work all the time, right?

[Casca]

Seconded, Paramount. Additionally, it is the most thankless of jobs. You’ll be expected to be available 24/7, and no matter what stupid users, DBA’s, and assorted nincompoops do to mess up the systems, it’s all supposed to work all the time, right?

[Casca]

Seconded, Paramount. Additionally, it is the most thankless of jobs. You’ll be expected to be available 24/7, and no matter what stupid users, DBA’s, and assorted nincompoops do to mess up the systems, it’s all supposed to work all the time, right?

[Casca]

Seconded, Paramount. Additionally, it is the most thankless of jobs. You’ll be expected to be available 24/7, and no matter what stupid users, DBA’s, and assorted nincompoops do to mess up the systems, it’s all supposed to work all the time, right?

[kev374]

The trend is towards using cheap H1b labor and of late using even cheaper L1 labor. I know some L1 workers who have come here as an exchange from a big Indian company, they are not paid a proper salary but a $800 allowance every month. They have to pay all their living expenses with that including rent. Therefore they are living 4 in a 2 bedroom apt.

They have to work until 10pm everyday and also be available on the weekends. Basically modern day slavery.

The L1 route is a popular loophole these days because it is a largely unregulated visa in terms of minimum wages and caps.

[kev374]

The trend is towards using cheap H1b labor and of late using even cheaper L1 labor. I know some L1 workers who have come here as an exchange from a big Indian company, they are not paid a proper salary but a $800 allowance every month. They have to pay all their living expenses with that including rent. Therefore they are living 4 in a 2 bedroom apt.

They have to work until 10pm everyday and also be available on the weekends. Basically modern day slavery.

The L1 route is a popular loophole these days because it is a largely unregulated visa in terms of minimum wages and caps.

[kev374]

The trend is towards using cheap H1b labor and of late using even cheaper L1 labor. I know some L1 workers who have come here as an exchange from a big Indian company, they are not paid a proper salary but a $800 allowance every month. They have to pay all their living expenses with that including rent. Therefore they are living 4 in a 2 bedroom apt.

They have to work until 10pm everyday and also be available on the weekends. Basically modern day slavery.

The L1 route is a popular loophole these days because it is a largely unregulated visa in terms of minimum wages and caps.

[kev374]

The trend is towards using cheap H1b labor and of late using even cheaper L1 labor. I know some L1 workers who have come here as an exchange from a big Indian company, they are not paid a proper salary but a $800 allowance every month. They have to pay all their living expenses with that including rent. Therefore they are living 4 in a 2 bedroom apt.

They have to work until 10pm everyday and also be available on the weekends. Basically modern day slavery.

The L1 route is a popular loophole these days because it is a largely unregulated visa in terms of minimum wages and caps.

[kev374]

The trend is towards using cheap H1b labor and of late using even cheaper L1 labor. I know some L1 workers who have come here as an exchange from a big Indian company, they are not paid a proper salary but a $800 allowance every month. They have to pay all their living expenses with that including rent. Therefore they are living 4 in a 2 bedroom apt.

They have to work until 10pm everyday and also be available on the weekends. Basically modern day slavery.

The L1 route is a popular loophole these days because it is a largely unregulated visa in terms of minimum wages and caps.

[mixxalot]

Cheap Labor and IT

Agree- I too get tons of emails from Indian recruiters who are the worst to deal with and most jobs pay peanuts for senior level IT work. Best way is to become a niche expert in a specific high demand area that requires critical assistance and can bill high rates and do short contract work.

Full time jobs are not stable or secure anymore with H-1B/L-1 and off shore cheap labor.

Me- plan to go back from advanced degree in a field that cannot be off shored so easily or replaced by cheap labor. Maybe some type of finance or legal field that is not sent to India or China.

I do not see C-level (CEO, CFO, SVP) executive level jobs being sent overseas anytime soon.

[mixxalot]

Cheap Labor and IT

Agree- I too get tons of emails from Indian recruiters who are the worst to deal with and most jobs pay peanuts for senior level IT work. Best way is to become a niche expert in a specific high demand area that requires critical assistance and can bill high rates and do short contract work.

Full time jobs are not stable or secure anymore with H-1B/L-1 and off shore cheap labor.

Me- plan to go back from advanced degree in a field that cannot be off shored so easily or replaced by cheap labor. Maybe some type of finance or legal field that is not sent to India or China.

I do not see C-level (CEO, CFO, SVP) executive level jobs being sent overseas anytime soon.

[mixxalot]

Cheap Labor and IT

Agree- I too get tons of emails from Indian recruiters who are the worst to deal with and most jobs pay peanuts for senior level IT work. Best way is to become a niche expert in a specific high demand area that requires critical assistance and can bill high rates and do short contract work.

Full time jobs are not stable or secure anymore with H-1B/L-1 and off shore cheap labor.

Me- plan to go back from advanced degree in a field that cannot be off shored so easily or replaced by cheap labor. Maybe some type of finance or legal field that is not sent to India or China.

I do not see C-level (CEO, CFO, SVP) executive level jobs being sent overseas anytime soon.

[mixxalot]

Cheap Labor and IT

Agree- I too get tons of emails from Indian recruiters who are the worst to deal with and most jobs pay peanuts for senior level IT work. Best way is to become a niche expert in a specific high demand area that requires critical assistance and can bill high rates and do short contract work.

Full time jobs are not stable or secure anymore with H-1B/L-1 and off shore cheap labor.

Me- plan to go back from advanced degree in a field that cannot be off shored so easily or replaced by cheap labor. Maybe some type of finance or legal field that is not sent to India or China.

I do not see C-level (CEO, CFO, SVP) executive level jobs being sent overseas anytime soon.

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